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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Presidential Candidates 2008 as Authors: A Booklist

It occured to me that many of the announced or possible candidates to become our next president have written books. Until I started making this list, however, I had no idea how many there were, candidates and books. I used the candidates list at Politics1 to decide who to include.

In making the list that follows, I tried to add only books for which the candidate was the principle or second author. I also found that some of the candidates have very common names. I did not add titles unless I was very sure that the candidates and the authors were the same.

I noticed that many Republican Party and third party candidates publish books in Nashville.

Not all the candidates are writing about politics or world affairs. Some write about the American Civil War or statistical mechanics. Most write about terrorism.

Ron Paul might not have been on the list from Politics1 a year ago when I made this list. His last book is Foreign Policy of Freedompublished by the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, 2007.

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I am a reference librarian at the Thomas Ford Memorial Library who graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. I have worked in public libraries in Texas, Missouri, and Illinois. I am interested in promoting reference services and the reading of good books.